The One-Woman Dev Team Diaries #208
Birthday Week highlights, 10 weeks to go, the desktop profile page redesign, and a lot of reading... 📚
Birthday Week Highlights
Birthday Week was fantastic. 🤩
Here are a few highlights:
Cream tea at The Kensington. They gave me a glass of champagne and cake and comped the whole meal when one of the staff members there learnt it was my birthday.
Jacinda drip-feeding birthday message videos from my favourite trainers at my gym. They made me laugh, they got me teary…I’m so lucky with the community I’ve built there.
Competing in my first ever fitness competition and placing inside the top twenty without my team training for it.
You can see us in action in the reel that Jacinda put together.
And thank you to everyone who sent an email telling me what they love about StoryGraph or this newsletter. They were awesome. ☺️
Feature Freeze
So, we’ve now entered Q4…
I have been telling myself that I’ve got three months to get everything done, but then I remembered that we’d said that this year would be different. 👀
Yup, no more last-minute deployments that might introduce bugs so close to our biggest days of the year. 😅
This means that there are only 10 weeks left!! 😱
(Looking forward to a more chill run up to Christmas though, typically my favourite time of the year.)
Since Last Time…
The desktop profile page redesign has been done!
Before:
After:
This morning Rob sent me this post, which was wonderful as my goal is for everyone to think that the whole of StoryGraph is “SO pretty”:
Someone has since pointed out to me that I forgot to include the covers of five-star reads. They weren’t in the original redesign, and they were originally removed from the mobile profile page, much to a lot of users’ disappointment!
Another big achievement of the last couple of weeks was granting giveaway hosts the ability to update their book listings, getting rid of a lot of manual work for Abbie. 🙌🏾
Italia
I’m going to be in Rome and Florence next week for a few days. If you have one must-visit site, attraction, or restaurant in mind, please let me know!
(Also if you know of a quality gym/CrossFit box where I can get my hands on a proper squat rack via a day pass in either city, please send details. 🙏🏾)
What I'm reading
A book by my favourite nonfiction writer (The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe), September’s The Stacks Book Club pick (The Lilac People by Milo Todd), an audiobook memoir about a personal cold case (A Better Ending by James Whitfield Thomson), and a book I’ve been hearing about for years that’s got me on edge even though you know what happens from the beginning (Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer)… 😰
Have a great week,
Nadia